Tech: Grubhub for Sale and Spotify's Ad Strategy

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🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Reports circulated this week that food delivery company Grubhub could be on the sales block and there seem to be interested buyers. We explain why the upstart has been struggling and why a buyout could make sense. After that, we unpack Spotify's announcement that it's investing podcast ad technology and why it could be a gamechanger for the streaming music company.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.
0:11.0	I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyple. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today
0:16.0	we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods.
0:19.0	Wild-Curt! Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in.
0:27.3	It's Friday January 10th. I'm your host Dylan Lewis and we're doing a rundown of some
0:31.5	major tech news.
0:32.8	Got Fool.com's Evan New with me on Skype.
0:36.0	Evan, we haven't chatted in a while.
0:38.0	What's on tap for you in 2020?
0:40.0	I don't really have any big plans.
0:42.0	You having a good new year so far?
0:44.0	Yeah, I am, you know. I didn't think I was going to be buying a house in 2020, but I might be in a position where I'm buying a house kind of unexpectedly.
0:51.0	Yeah, yeah, so I'm exploring that so a little bit of a fixer upper type situation.
0:57.0	Family friend has a house that might be up for sale and I might be scooping it up. So if any of our listeners have any
1:04.4	DIY horror stories or tips when it comes to buying a house that needs significant
1:08.7	work, please let me know. I'm still kind of in that phase where I'm looking for
1:12.0	someone to talk me out of it it but it checks a lot of the
1:14.4	boxes for what I want in a place in DC so if there's an oak tree don't buy it yeah
1:20.4	that sounds like a story from experience there Austin. I have two of them and I also have tens of thousands of acorns every year.
1:28.0	Well, so that's the thing you live in Virginia. This is a house in Washington DC. We don't really have lawns in Washington, D.C. in the same way.
1:35.0	That's true.
1:36.0	So I'll keep that in mind, although for this property in particular, not so much of an issue.
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